recruit

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To engage (persons) for military service.
2. v. To strengthen or raise (an armed force) by enlistment.
3. v. To supply with new members or employees.
4. v. To enroll or seek to enroll: colleges recruiting minority students.
5. v. To replenish.
6. v. To renew or restore the health, vitality, or intensity of.
7. v. To raise a military force.
8. v. To obtain replacements for or new supplies of something lost, wasted, or needed.
9. v. To regain lost health or strength; recover.
10. n. A newly engaged member of a military force, especially one of the lowest rank or grade.
11. n. A new member of an organization or body.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To repair by fresh supplies; supply lack or deficiency in.
2. To restore the wasted vigor of; renew the health, spirits, or strength of; refresh: as, to recruit one's health.
3. To supply with new men; specifically, to supply with new men for any deficiency of troops; make up by enlistment: as, to recruit an army.
4. To provision; take supplies on board of, as a vessel: as in the phrase to recruit ship. Synonyms Reinforce, replenish.
5. To gain new supplies of anything lost or wasted; gain flesh, health, spirits, etc.
6. To gain new supplies of men for any object; specifically, to raise new soldiers.
7. To enter port for supplies, as a vessel.
8. n. A fresh supply of anything wasted or used, as of provisions and supplies on shipboard, etc.
9. n. A soldier or sailor newly enlisted to supply the deficiency of an army or a navy; one whohas newly filled a vacancy in any body or class of persons.
10. n. Asubstitute for something wanting.

Wiktionary

1. n. A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.
2. n. A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.
3. n. A hired worker
4. n. biology, ecology A new member of a certain population, usually referring to a juvenile.
5. v. To make an attempt to enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, military, etc.
6. v. To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster
7. v. archaic To replenish, renew, or reinvigorate by fresh supplies; to remedy lack or deficiency in
8. v. dated, intransitive To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in
2. v. Hence, to restore the wasted vigor of; to renew in strength or health; to reinvigorate.
3. v. To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; ; also, to muster; to enlist.
4. v. To gain new supplies of anything wasted; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like; to recuperate.
5. v. To gain new supplies of men for military or other service; to raise or enlist new soldiers; to enlist troops.
6. n. A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reënforcement.
7. n. Specifically, a man enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces)
2. v. register formally as a participant or member
3. n. a recently enlisted soldier
4. v. seek to employ
5. v. cause to assemble or enlist in the military